Subspecies Physopelta gutta gutta (Burmeister, 1834)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pyrrhocoris gutta Burmeister, H. 1834. Beitrage zur Zoologie, gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde, von Dr. F. J. D. Meyen, sechste Abhandlung. Insecten Rhyngota seu Hemiptera. Acta Academiae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosum 16: 285-308 [300].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB (depository uncertain), Luzon, Philippines.
• Physopelta bimaculata Stål, C. 1855. Nya Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 12: 181-192 [186].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM, Manilla, Philippines; Java, Indonesia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stål, C. 1870. Enumeratio Hemipterorum. Bidrag till en förteckning öfver aller hittills kända Hemiptera, jemte systematiska meddelanden. 1. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm n.f. 9(1): 1-232 [99]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Cairns, Coen River, Deral, Kuranda, Lockerby, Mt Carbine, Tinaroo, NSW—Clarence River.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, folivore, herbivore, sap-feeder, terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Ahmad, I. & Perveen, R. 1986. Studies on the abdomen and genitalia of a pyrrhocorid cotton stainer Dysdercus koenigii (Fabr.) and a largid Physopelta gutta (Burm.) (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoroidea) and their bearing on classification. Proceeding of the Pakistan Congress of Zoology 5: 159-169 (abdominal morphology)

Distant, W.L. 1903. Report on the Rhynchota, Part 1. Heteroptera. pp. 219–272 in, Fasciculi Malayenses: anthropological and zoological results of an expedition to Perak and the Siamese Malay States, 1901–1902 undertaken by Nelson Annandale and Herbert C. Robinson under the auspices of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Liverpool. Zoology Part I. [250] (synonymy)

Hori, K. 2000. Possible causes of disease symptoms resulting from the feeding of phytophagous Heteroptera. pp. 11-35 in Schaefer, C.W. & Panizzi, A.R. (eds). Heteroptera of Economic Importance. Boca Raton : CRC Press 828 pp. [17, Tab. 1] (physiology)

Hussey, R.F. 1929. Pyrrhocoridae. Fascicle III. pp. 1–144 in, General Catalogue of the Hemiptera. Northampton : Smith College. [30] (catalogue)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [242] (catalogue)

Maxwell-Lefroy, H. 1909. Indian Insect Life. A manual of the insects of the plains (tropical India). 2 vols. Calcutta : Thacker, Spink & Co. xii 786 pp. [691] (distribution, biology)

Schmidt, E. 1931. Zur Kenntnis der Familie Pyrrhocoridae Fieber. (Hemiptera — Heteroptera). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 92: 1-51 [46] (distribution)

 

History of changes

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